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Patented Apr; "7,1885.

01cihcgmpmr. Washington. D. C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. LYNN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO RICHARD WOOLLEY, J R., OF SAME PLACE.

SHOE-MAKERS PlNC HERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,430, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed January 9, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN Gr. LYNN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Makers Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combination-tool for shoe-makers use. Its object is to provide a simple implement to do the work which ordinarily requires two or more tools, and thus save the expense of several tools and time required to handle them.

The invention consists in providing the ordinary shoe-makers pinchers with a wedgeshaped fulcrum, which projects from one jaw of the pinchers, to enable the tool to be conveniently used in lasting the shank of a boot or shoe, thus taking the .place of a shanklaster. The wed ge-shaped point is also useful for removing tacks and ripping off a damaged upperffor which there is now no regular tool. Itis also very convenient for removing lifts from heels, which work is now inconveniently performed by the awl.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an ordinary shoe-makers pinchers provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a perspective elevation of the same.

The lower jaw, A, with its fulcrum and hammer B, is constructed in the usual manner, as is also the upper jaw, C, except that its forward end is provided with the forward projection, D. I prefer to make this projection the full width of the upper jaw, and blunt-edged, as shown, so as to give a better bearing and be sufficiently-pointed to be forced under the lift without being so sharp as to out in lasting; but I do notdesire to limit myself to the exact form of the piece D shown, asit is obvious different forms might be used for shank-lasting, so long as the piece projects in substantially the same direction from the up per jaw. It is also immaterial whether the wedge D be in one piece with the upper jaw or made detachable from it.

As the piece D is not in the way when the pinchers are used in the ordinary way, it is best in making new tools to make the wedge and upper jaw in one piece; but the wedge D may be made separate, so as to be attached by any of the well-known methods to the pinchers now in common use.

In practice the toe and fore part of the boot or shoe are lasted with the common pinchers,

and to make a good job of work a shank-laster is then employed to complete the lasting, as I the common pinchers could only be used in a horizontal position, in which position theleathless time than with the tools now in common I use.

What I claim is- In a shoe-makers tool, the combination, I, 70 1 fulcrum B with jaw C, having the fulcrum substantially as specified, of the jaw A and D projecting longitudinally forward from it, for the purpose set forth..

JOHN G. LYNN.

Witnesses:

CHRISTIAN F. RAPP, GEO. J. MURRAY. 

